AZ-900 Practice Question 28: Azure Cloud Shell

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) · Test 3 · question 8 of 10

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An administrator is on a borrowed laptop with no Azure tooling installed and needs to run a few Azure CLI commands against her subscription right now. She is not allowed to install software on the machine. What should she do?

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Answer:

D. Open Azure Cloud Shell from the Azure portal and use its Bash experience

Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible terminal for managing Azure resources, offering a choice of Bash or PowerShell. Microsoft manages it, the popular command-line tools come preinstalled, and it authenticates automatically to her resources, so she gets a working Azure CLI without putting anything on the borrowed machine. Use of the host itself is free.

Option A would work technically but violates the stated constraint and takes far longer than opening a browser tab. Option B is a heavyweight, billable way to obtain a shell she can already have for free, and the VM would then need managing too. Option C misreads the task: an ARM template is a declarative file describing resources to deploy, not a way to run ad-hoc CLI commands, and it is not something a browser executes.

Reference: What is Azure Cloud Shell?

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